SPORT

Kho-kho meet begins
By Our Sports Reporter

CHANDIGARH, Jan 6 — The two-day Chandigarh Sub-Junior Kho-kho Championships began here today at Guru Harkishan Model School, Sector 38, with boys and girls of various schools and coaching centres taking part in these. The two-day meet is being organised by the Chandigarh Kho-Kho Association.

In the girls' section, Dev Samaj Club-21 and City Club-23 sailed into the final. In the boys' section, Guru Harkishan Model School, Sector 38, and Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 37 moved into the last four of the event.

The final of the girls' section will be played tomorrow at 11 a.m., followed by the boys' section final.

Results: Girls (semi-finals) — Dev Samaj Club-21 b Government High School, Sector 37, by 12 points; City Club, Sector 23, b Government Senior Secondary School, Sector 45, by three points.

Quarterfinals — Dev Samaj Club-21 b Government Model Senior Secondary Club-37 by eight points; Government High School, Sector 37, b Government High School Club-33 by five points; Government Senior Secondary School, Sector 45, b Government High School, Sector 41, by 12 points and City Club-23 b MDAV School, Sector 22, by seven points.

Boys (semi-finals) — Guru Harkishan Model School Club-38 b DAV Model School-15 by eight points; Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 37, b Government High School, Sector 45, by an innings and a point.

Quarterfinals — Guru Harkishan Model School Club-38 b Unified Club by four points; DAV Model School, Sector 15, b MDAV School, Sector 22, by two points; Government High School, Sector 45, b Flankers Club by one point; and Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 37, b Government High School, Sarangpur, by five points.

PU Campus win squash tourney
By Our Sports Reporter

CHANDIGARH, Jan 6 — Panjab University Campus, Chandigarh, won the PU Squash Racquet Championship which concluded here today. Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, got the second position, DAV College, Chandigarh, stood third, while GGD SD College, Sector 32, Chandigarh, finished fourth in this meet.

In the matches played today, DAV College, Chandigarh, defeated GGD SD College, Sector 32, Chandigarh, 3-1 (Sanket Srivastava lost to Puneet, 0-9, 0-9, 0-9; Amarinder Singh b Jitinder, 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Navraj Sidhu b Surinder, 9-0, 9-1, 9-0; Mansij Jain b Avdesh, 9-0, 9-0, 9-1).

PU Campus, Chandigarh, b Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, 3-1 (Mandeep Tiwana b Nalin Singla, 9-3, 9-5, 9-1; Ravneet Ahuja b Amit Vij, 9-4, 9-5, 9-4; Prabhjinder Singh lost to Akash Chauhan, 2-9, 1-9, 7-9; Gaurav Liberhan b Tarun Joshi, 9-3, 9-6, 7-9, 6-9, 9-6.

In the PU Inter-College Zonal Football tournament for men, also played on the PU campus today, Government College, Sector 46, beat Government College, Sector 11, 8-0. The goal scorers were Vishal (3), Birjesh (1), Mohan (2) and Mandeep (2).

Deepika shoots gold
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Jan 6 — Deepika Kaushal, a student of Army School, Patiala, won one gold, two silver and one bronze medals in various categories of the .22 rifle shooting events in the 24th Northern India Shooting Championship, 1999. The tournament was held at the Patiali Rao ranges, here recently.

ADMINISTRATION

UT plans 10 colonies for slum dwellers
By Prabhjot Singh
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Jan 6 — Ten colonies of multi-storeyed low-cost 1600 flats each located adjacent to different villages in the Union Territory are being contemplated as the last and final phase of resettlement of slum dwellers whose names figure in the electoral rolls as on December 8,1996, and found eligible after a careful scrutiny of their claims.

The colonies, each expected to be spread over an area of 10 acres each, will be completed with financing from national financial and housing institutions. Each of these rehabilitation colonies is expected to cost about Rs 20 crore each. This cost will include the cost of land acquisition, provision of basic services and construction of multi-storeyed flats.

The recent amendments to the Licensing of Tenements and Sites and Services in Chandigarh Scheme, 1979, is a major step towards preventing further unorganised growth of slums in the Union Territory of Chandigarh, which continues to receive about 500 migrants a day.

The major attraction or incentive for the incoming migrant labour force is subsidised rehabilitation with allotment of site and services or a plot or an independent dwelling unit. While the slum dwellers are being allotted independent plots, sites and services or dwelling units, those registered with cooperative house building societies and others are now being forced to accept multi-soreyed flats as their permanent abodes in the Union Territory.

“We do not want that the left-out slum dwellers as per December 8,1996, eligibility be rehabilitated at one place for various administrative and other reasons,” says a senior functionary of the Administration.

“We want these rehabilitation colonies to be scattered so as not to throttle the basic services, including water and power supply, sewerage, sanitation and garbage disposal,” he adds.

The financing of the multi-storeyed flat colonies would be done by national housing financial institutions. The Chandigarh Housing Board may be one of the agencies being engaged in the acquisition and construction of some of the cluster of these colonies.

The total project cost, which is expected to be around Rs 200 crore, would be borne and subsequently recovered by these housing financial institutions, including National Housing Bank, HUDCO and other such institutions.

The new policy, unless amended, does not have a proviso for identifying any future beneficiary as the eligibility clause has been defined in the policy itself.

The policy specificially states that the migrants whose names do not figure in the electoral rolls as on December 8,1996, shall not be eligible for rehabilitation in the Union Territory and unauthorised encroachments or construction made by them shall be removed in accordance with the law.

Never before such a proviso was made in the policy or subsequent amendment.

“Nothwithstanding anything contained in the scheme, no person shall be eligible for allotment of a tenement unless he himself had been residing in the colony. Mere ownership, unless accompanied by actual physical possession of a building, structure or covered site shall not be sufficient to make a person eligible for alternative allotment.”

The Finance Secretary, Mr Rakesh Singh, says that the Administration would honour its commitment made in Parliament that all eligible people whose names figure in electoral rolls as on December 8,1996, shall be rehabilitated.

He says that the new policy once implemented would provide dwelling units to all eligible and identified slum dwellers. The sites for these colonies adjoining various villages are being identified.

Sanitation work privatised
From Our Correspondent

SAS NAGAR, Jan 6 — The long-pending municipal scheme for the privatisation of sanitation work in the town was implemented today with work commencing in Phase X.

The scheme was inaugurated in front of the cricket stadium with the officiating Municipal Council President, Mr Amrik Singh Mohali, other councillors and the Executive Officer, Mr K.S. Brar, symbolically beginning the work with brooms.

Mr Brar said the privatisation scheme would cover residential Phases I, VI, VII, X, and XI, Shahi Majra and Mohali villages and industrial Phases I to IX. The trial persued for the scheme inviting a cost of Rs 4,67,500, would be three months. If the work of the contractors was satisfactory, it would be suitably extended.

Mr Brar said municipal employees had been opposing the scheme though in reality their workload would in fact decrease as the number of safai karamcharis was inadequate and the area to be covered was gradually increasing.

Mr Amrik Singh, Senior Vice-President officiating as council head, said the contract had been given to two companies, Sharma Associates and Decent Security and Housekeeping Services, which were already working with PUDA and the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation. However, the contract was given to them at rates lower than those cleared by PUDA and that corporation.

He said the work of two companies would mainly comprise sweeping, garbage collection and disposal. They had the necessary equipment to tackle sanitation work.

Mr Amrik Singh criticised his predecessor in the council for not taking the residents’ demand for privatisation seriously. In fact in 1995, at the first meeting of the elected council, it was decided to privatise sanitation work in one industrial and three residential phases. However, the council failed to implement this decision.

Over the years, he said, Mataur village and Sectors 70 and 71 came under the civic body but the strength of the safai karamcharis remained unchanged. Then in July last year the council again decided to implement the privatisation scheme. He appreciated government cooperation in the scheme.

Among those present at the inaugruation were Ms Sita Devi, Mr S.S. Barnala and Mr Amrik Singh, all municipal councillors.

Draft electoral rolls
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Jan 6 — A final list of amendments of the draft electoral rolls for the Chandigarh parliamentary constituency will be published tomorrow, it was announced here today.

According to a press note issued by the Chief Electoral Officer of Chandigarh, it was said that public and political parties were being informed that the list of amendments to the draft electoral rolls for the Chandigarh parliamentary constituency had been revised with reference to New Year Day, 2000, as the qualifying date by inviting claims and objections and in accordance with the registration of electors rules, 1960.

The press note further said that a copy of the said roll together with the list of amendments will be finally published on January 7,2000, in the office of the Chief Electoral Officers (Election Department) of the Union Territory of Chandigarh.